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She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a di...

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No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's ...

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If you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you?"Oh, i...

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Edith WhartonThe Custom of the Country

I don't want to be married anymore. In daylight hours, I refused that thought, but at night it would...

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My husband was sleeping in the other room, in our bed.I equal parts loved him and could not stand hi...

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Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my gu...

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The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than stayin...

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If you really want to get to know someone, you have to divorce him.

Getting out of a marriage is rough, though, and not just for the legal / financial complications or ...

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I see marriage as an operation that sews two people together, and divorce is a kind of amputation th...

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The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had ho...

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In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make...

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The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of...

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When abandoned women follow their fleeing males with tear-stained faces, screaming you can't do this...

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The housewife is an unpaid worker in her husband's house in return for the security of being a perma...

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Properly speaking, altruism is an absurdity. Women are self-sacrificing in direct proportion to thei...

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The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincer...

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Gordon B. HinckleyStanding for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

From the photo albums, every single print of her had been peeled away. Shots of the both of us toget...

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When love dies and marriage lies in ruins, the first casualty is honest memory, decent, impartial re...

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Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a ...

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J. P. DonleavyThe Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms: The Chronicle Of One Of The Strangest Stories Ever To Be Rumoured About Around New York

Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting ...

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I can't explain it. It's what turns you to powder, being ground between what you can't do and what y...

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Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything ex...

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Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything ex...

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So we fell asleep holding hands. If married couples got to do this all the time, shit if I could und...

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John BarnesTales of the Madman Underground

Divorced?''Separated.'He tested his thumb against the pricks of the rose. 'Women. They say you got a...

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John CrowleyAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to di...

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It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before t...

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Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

My husband and I have never considered divorce... murder sometimes, but never divorce.

There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divo...

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Once a person has been poisoned by self-deception, he can't make decisions about himself as neatly ...

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I can't imagine having a real personal thing, like divorce and marriage, all those things, being in ...

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We're not peculiar.""Oh, yes, you are. Don't you realize that in my world my parents are peculiar be...

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You and I both know that love is for children,'' he said. ''We're adults. Compatibility is for adult...

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I don't know how many marriage breakups are caused by these movie-and television-addicted women expe...

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Malcolm XThe Autobiography of Malcolm X

She [Mme Sazerat] did not offer her hand, but smiled at my mother with vague melancholy as one smile...

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Marriage is always something of a compromise, as I'm sure you're now aware. Any long-term relationsh...

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If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their ...

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I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew...

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In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it cam...

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Mitch AlbomFor One More Day

Your heart doesn't think. Your heart is stupid. It doesn't consider the relativity of tragedy when i...

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...and then I began to drift, fighting tears. I used to come here with Miriam. Miriam, my heart's de...

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That was the kind of life she’d had as a child, and it was the kind she wanted as an adult. But it h...

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Nicholas SparksA Bend in the Road

He went on for some time while I sat listening in silence because I knew he was right, and like two ...

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The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over.Enough about that.The poi...

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But when you've had children with someone you're divorced from, divorce defines everything; it's the...

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Nora EphronI Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

People always say that once it goes away, you forget the pain. It’s a cliché of childbirth: you forg...

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Nora EphronI Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

But the main problem with our marriages was not that our husbands wouldn’t share the housework but t...

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Nora EphronI Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

But the truth is you don't always know you're getting a divorce. For years, you're married. Then, on...

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Nora EphronI Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

. . .once you find out he's cheated on you, you have to keep finding out, over and over and over aga...

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Nora EphronI Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

ALGERNON. I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But ...

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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial ...

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Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a b...

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I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal...

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This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other,...

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Raquel CepedaBird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remem...

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Richard FordThe Lay of the Land

They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorc...

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Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting m...

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In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and con...

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In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and cont...

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In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and con...

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In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and cont...

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My emotional world imploded, and there is nothing that could have been said or done to make it easie...

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Sara BareillesSounds Like Me: My Life (So Far) in Song

A united front announcing a split.

It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.

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Sarah DessenWhat Happened to Goodbye

But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad ...

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I don't think anybody whose ever been divorced can tell you divorce is easy or fun or feels like any...

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Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife

Divorce is a marital welfare. It's just couples asking society to bail them out because they didn't ...

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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to bru...

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For five years I didn't think it was possible to be this happy.But then he forgot all those promises...

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Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some w...

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Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate “relatio...

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She divorced her husband, y' know. I never knew him, it was before I met Jane. Apparently she came b...

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She is afraid of divorce, which will free her, as she was not enough afraid of marriage, which trapp...

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I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in...

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Suicide is a confession of failure. And like divorce, it is shrouded in excuses and rationalizations...

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Al AlvarezThe Savage God: A Study of Suicide

Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their miser...

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THE HOLIDAYS ARE RUINED!This book is one page long and just contains that one sentence.

When a husband stops paying attention to the garden, he's thinking of pulling up roots.

What cracks had he left in their hearts? Did they love less now and settle for less in return, as th...

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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.

For once, the tears wouldn't come. She saw that Michael might have been right. It really could be to...

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Anne TylerThe Amateur Marriage

In the break-up of a marriage the world inclines to take the side of the partner with most vitality,...

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Anthony PowellA Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression us...

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When you have to face up to the fact that marriage to the man you love is really over, that's very t...

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Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into someth...

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Most serious confrontations in life are not political, they are existential. One can agree with some...

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Azar NafisiThings I've Been Silent About: Memories

The divorced Indian lady combines every fantasy about the liberated, wicked Western woman with the s...

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Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . ...

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The biggest potential for helping us overcome shame is this: We are “those people.” The truth is…we ...

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Brené BrownI Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn't): Making the Journey from "What Will People Think?" to "I Am Enough"

Even if the two lovers are mature and experienced people who know that broken hearts heal in the end...

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[The Devil and his angels] have... persuad[ed]... humans that a curious, and usually short-lived, ex...

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Hell, I'd even failed with women. Three wives. Nothing really wrong each time. It all got destroyed ...

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I have always maintained a strong opposition to marriage because I would have to be in serious denia...

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